Kristie Higgs, a Christian woman from the U.K., had her appeal heard before an employment tribunal last week after a judge recused two lay members of the panel for perceived bias.
Kristie Higgs, a Christian mother of two, was fired from her position as a pastoral assistant at the unidentified church school in 2019 after raising concerns on her private Facebook page about sex education for children.
Attorneys for Higgs petitioned the tribunal last Thursday to recuse Andrew Morris, who served as the assistant general secretary of the National Education Union from 2017 to 2020. They argued that during his tenure, the NEU"consistently took a strong position in favor of making Relationships and Sex Education mandatory in primary schools and encouraged teaching primary school children about same-sex relationships and transgenderism.
"A reasonable bystander might have a reasonable cause for concern that the lay member has been for some time living and working within an institution which has adopted very forcefully a particular set of ideas and has made those ideas very much the forefront of its work," Higgs' lawyer, Richard O’Dair, said in court.
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